December 31, 2012
From TroyMessenger.com
Two people suffered shooting injuries during while on hunting
trips this weekend.
According to Pike County Sheriff Russell
Thomas, the first accident happened near Henderson.
Thomas
said while a man was loading a high-powered rifle in the back of an
SUV, the hatch of the vehicle struck the butt of the gun and went
off, injuring a family member who was seated inside the vehicle.
“We called to check on him and he is recovering, but he lost
part of his liver.”
In a separate incident in the Tarentum
community, hunters shot a couple of wild hogs.
As the sky
grew darker, they were about to load the hogs into a vehicle when
one hunter stepped in a hole and stumbled, accidentally shooting two
other hunters with his 9-mm “snake” gun.
Thomas said the
victim in that accident did not suffer life-threatening injuries.
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